republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-138.md

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Bill	Disabled First Responders; certain benefits; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated so as to provide certain benefits to disabled first responders; to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., so as to provide for a free license plate for certain disabled first responders; to amend Code Section 48-5C-1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to alternative ad valorem tax on motor vehicles; to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to computation of net income, so as to exempt disability payments to certain disabled first responders from state income tax; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 138	Georgia SB 138 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones Dean Burke Donzella James Ed Harbison Ellis Black Freddie Sims Gail Davenport Greg Kirk Jeff Mullis Jennifer Jordan Jesse Stone John Albers John Wilkinson Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Mike Dugan P. K. Martin IV Randy Robertson Steve Gooch Tonya Anderson Tyler Harper Valencia Seay Zahra Karinshak	6	17	1	2019-02-20	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6dcf8fd4-f46f-4de7-a44e-3ef1065f945f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	914179c1a14053724587f578335089dc82824cfa9e8e6470d6d10c5bd35d56ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 138 (2019_20) — Disabled First Responders; certain benefits; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated so as to provide certain benefits to disabled first responders; to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., so as to provide for a free license plate for certain disabled first responders; to amend Code Section 48-5C-1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to alternative ad valorem tax on motor vehicles; to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to computation of net income, so as to exempt disability payments to certain disabled first responders from state income tax; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As introduced LC 43 1258 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 43 1305S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 2377S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 43 1408S/hrs (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 138/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO ENGROSS SB 213, SB 216, SB 138 — 35–19 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Freddie Sims — primary (person)
• Gail Davenport — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Jennifer Jordan — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)
• Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-02-20 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-07 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2019-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 283 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6dcf8fd4-f46f-4de7-a44e-3ef1065f945f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).